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Republicans aren't to blame

The Lowell Sun

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01/08/2013 10:39:12 AM EST

I find it amazing that Norman J. Ornstein, President Barack Obama, the "mainstream media" and just about everyone else lay the blame for the current fiscal crisis on Speaker John Boehner and the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives. We have a president who hasn't gotten a budget he submitted passed in four years even when he had majorities in both the House and Senate. We have Harry Reid in the Senate who has yet to produce a budget resolution as required by the Constitution or even take up any of the budgets passed by the House and sent to the Senate. Deficit spending under Obama and Harry Reid has taken us to $16 trillion in debt and no end in sight. The only group that has tried to cut the debt and reduce deficit spending has been the Republicans in the House and they are being flayed for their efforts. According to Ornstein, "America's political dysfunction is driven by a Republican party that has become a an insurgent outlier." Just when did the loyal opposition become an insurgent outlier? Without some form of debate and dissent America will be on its way to bankruptcy and that seems to be the "Norm" in Ornstein's America.

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